VacationSelector

Melbourne or Munich?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Munich
57
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MelbourneMunich
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 55 points.55
MelbourneMunich
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km196
Coast distance4 km579 km
Water distance4 km—
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 2 points.2
MelbourneMunich
Score7573
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8881,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2935
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 12 points.12
MelbourneMunich
Score4961
Museums within 10 km4274
Museums within 2 km of centre2448
Share of museums within 2 km %5765
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 7 points.7
MelbourneMunich
Score7467
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9211,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6257
Nightclubs within 4 km124103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 5 points.5
MelbourneMunich
Score4348
Protected land share 50 km %617
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %81100
Park area within 2 km166 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 19 points.19
MelbourneMunich
Score6079
Tourist attractions within 2 km2680
Park area within 2 km166 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 11 points.11
MelbourneMunich
Score5768
Notable places within 2 km103196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 10 points.10
MelbourneMunich
Score5060
Price level global90.275.9
Daily budget—€163
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 20 points.20
MelbourneMunich
Score7656
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 mm46 mm to 121 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneMunich
SingaporeSIN, XSP
7 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
2 h 30 m
€127-141
MUC · 29 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
9 h 15 m
€407-480
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
15 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
Hong KongHKG
9 h 25 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
Ho Chi Minh CitySGN
8 h 35 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 5 m
€542-1650
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
New DelhiDEL
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureMelbourneMunich
Official languageEnglishGerman
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m519 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneMunich
City population5,350,7051,510,378
People per km²5354,861
Museums within 10 km4274
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8689
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.